• Death over the internet
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It's frightening that I've never put any thought into a friend (over the internet or in real life) dying. Now... I'm all paranoid over somebody dying.
Makes me feel like I should go to Church... or pray :( [editline]10:45PM[/editline] Now I dont want to die. Time to start going to the gym again. Next week I'll start going to my taekwondo lessons again. :(
Someone you knew by only their members name in a online game or site, may not be as impacting as someone you knew in real-life. But its still rather tragic that they actually died.
I've had friends on steam that just logged off one day and never logged back on, and I never knew what happened to them. I had one guy on my list for about 3 years when I finally decided he wasn't coming back. I worry that one day I will log off and never log back on and no one will know if I died.
i only have like a couple people online that I would actually be sad about if they died, mostly i wouldn't care much if it was someone on fp or on my steam friends list im not close to
[QUOTE=Mr_Sun;21677425]Makes me feel like I should go to Church... or [b]pray[/b] :( [editline]10:45PM[/editline] Now I dont want to die. Time to start going to the gym again. Next week I'll start going to my taekwondo lessons again. :([/QUOTE] Praying is like masturbating. It makes you feel good but you don't get anything done.
Good people die young. :ohdear:
[QUOTE=SkinkYEA;21682912]Good people die young. :ohdear:[/QUOTE] At least I'll be very old according to that logic
I visit a small forum made by some people I met on an old Gamespot Australia forum, there's about 25 regulars. One of them recently got a fabulous girlfriend after years of shit luck with horrible women. Just recently she broke it off and he can't figure out why. Now he's dipped into hard drugs and is slowly ruining his life. It's really sad, he's considered suicide as well.
[QUOTE=TacoFamine;21682442]Praying is like masturbating. It makes you feel good but you don't get anything done.[/QUOTE] Masturbating is more fun than praying, though.
I will never die, because I've never been alive.
[QUOTE=SuPeR_MaN;21665598]I used to be a member of a closely knit San Andreas Multiplayer clan where we all knew eachother and every body was pretty good friends and talked very often. Over time I slowly left the group and began to stop talking to everyone I knew from it and eventually entirely forgot about it, until one day when I returned to see if I remembered anyone and if they all still played (This was around two years after leaving). Loads of people there remembered me and I remembered a few old friends and we all started to talk and then I asked about someone I used to know called Monte. They thought I was being a dick and joking around but obviously I had missed something and ingame they drove me out to this island which they had added to the server. It was a collection of Monte's favourite stuff and a beach shack and up on a hill was a church with flowers. They said it was "Monte's Island" and it turned out he had a heart attack about a year previously. I was pretty shocked by this as I couldn't really imagine that happening and I never even considered him to be dead and I must say I did feel some grief for this person I had never met and had only spoke to online. Obviously some members of the clan did know him in real life and it would be much harder for them but I can definitely see how you can become attached to friends on the internet, even if you never did meet them.[/QUOTE] aboveultimate FTW
When I die, people here will miss me :buddy:
R.I.P. GeckoZero. I never knew you, but I've heard of your legacy. For those of you who don't know who GeckoZero is, she was a member of the [adult swim] Message Boards, who died during her time on the ASMB. [quote] It's my awful duty to let you know that we have lost GeckoZero. She passed away at 4:15 this afternoon. She'd seemed to be recovering from her surgery, but she took a turn for the worse, and when her heart went into code again she just didn't have the strength to be revived.[/quote] That username you see may just be text, but that's still a life on the other end.
I talked to a school shooter a few times. It's definitely weird considering what he did. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokela_school_shooting[/url] Do we know anyone from FP that has died?
I realized this a while ago. I have a group of epic people I talk with daily, whom I Skype, play video games with, IRC and forum together with. I just have no idea how I would react if one of the regulars just... Stop posting, stop coming into IRC and stop visiting the site without notice. Sure it's happened for a period of a week, though that person has a really inconsistent ISP with no redundancy (Homeschooled, no smartphone, in the middle of nowhere, neightbours have bad computers / dialup). After being reached by landline, a sigh of relief was had.
One of my steam friends died but left his computer on, so everytime I would check my friends list I'd see him on snooze. Turns out he was in San Francisco on a field trip
I used to play an MMO for about 5 years. After the game had 2 total system revamps and over 50% of the playerbase quit, a lot of us had to stick together. I joined a long standing guild who had a very dedicated guild leader. Because I was affiliated with the Devs, I was put in charge as the event organizer of the guild. Using our Teamspeak, our guild of about 50 grew very close bonds and we knew eachother just by voice. My leader had cancer and lost alot of the vocal manueverability in her voice. We were all working hard to rebuild a guild that took a serious hit in 2005 (due to said terrible revamp) when all the sudden she disappeared. She was gone for a few weeks at first and revealed the cancer had spread throughout her body and she was undergoing recovery. After a while she started getting very involved again, and we were using our resources to recruit and equip all of our guild members to take on tough missions and instances. A little bit later, she dissappeared again and this time for about 2 months. During the time she was gone, we all tried to hold together the guild all all of the jobs she had (she had about 8 toons total). We held it off long enough until she got back and revealed the cancer had gotten worse. So she gave control of the guild to someone else and started playing more leisurely. A few months later, she dissappeared and didnt show up at all. The maintenance on her buildings ran out and started to dissappear, the city was starting to shrink, and people were leaving. I used to walk around the desert city and look at the huge gaps where her houses (that were splendidly decorated) were and just remember all the good times we had as a guild. Eventually, the city (one of the largest on that particular planet) fell into ruin and was mostly abandoned, save for me and a few others. I still have screen shots of all of us together in a huge city fighting, having parties, or crafting and cant even compare it to the abandoned husk that is there now. I quit not to long after. <3
The first time I heart big dumb american going off to war, I did something I hadn't done since I was 6: I prayed for him. In 2005 I played star wars galaxies. I joined a guild so that we could have some fun RP-raiding. We would have meetings at the guild hall and have lots of fun. Our guild leader was a cop and told us different stories about things he did during the day and they were pretty entertaining. I quit for a while and 2 years later got back on. Most of the guild had disbanded (which i expected, it wasn't a very big guild) but the second in command was still actively playing. I sent him a message, greeted him, re-introduce myself (Because he forgot after a while) So I asked him "Hey, where's (can't remember guild leaders name)?" He took a while to reply, but eventually replied with "I don't know how to say this, but he's dead" Apparently he had pulled a guy over for reckless driving, and when he walked up to the window, the guy pulled a gun out and shot him.
Holy fuck is this thread depressing.
This thread is even more depressing when I realize that I don't have anyone who knows about Facepunch to come on here and post about my death should it happen unexpectedly. Way to make me feel even worse as I sit here alone on a Saturday night listening to black metal and dark ambient
If she has a Facebook profile, you could ask her parents to turn it into a memorial page. [url]http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=163091042130[/url] OP, I'm sorry for your loss :ohdear: <3
[QUOTE=Zeke129;21686955]This thread is even more depressing when I realize that I don't have anyone who knows about Facepunch to come on here and post about my death should it happen unexpectedly. Way to make me feel even worse as I sit here alone on a Saturday night OP[/QUOTE] Leave it in your will. username, password, instructions on how to post. Leave a text file on your desktop with a message to all of us
[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;21686979]Leave it in your will. username, password, instructions on how to post. Leave a text file on your desktop with a message to all of us[/QUOTE] You'll know I'm dead if I don't post for a few months despite not being permabanned.
[QUOTE=hl2poo;21671752]I remember back in 2003, I used to visit this old halo mods forum simply named "Halomods." I was young back then and I didn't even know how I make my own account so I simply browsed through the mods that appeared for the game. Then, what caught my eye was this cartoony cel-shade mod. It was made by this great modder, his username was Xavier. I read through his mod threads he made and he created a lot of mods for halo that I thought wouldn't even be possible. I downloaded them and played around with them in the game. I was amazed and hooked to them. I followed this guy's updates for a whole year and I wanted to thank him for such great mods he'd made, but me not knowing how to create an account yet, I couldn't. On December 24th, 2004, he made a post saying he has the flu and that he's going to rest for a while. As I went through my Christmas, I kept waiting for him to come back. On the 26th, I opened the forums. The front page says, "R.I.P. Xavier." He passed away on the Christmas night in his sleep from the flu. I was heartbroken, I didn't know what to think. I had mixed feelings, I keep thinking he would come back and post some more great mods but I also knew that he wouldn't. He had a big memorial you could access on the front page where it would give you links to all of his mods. After his death, I found out how to make an account and finally thanked him in his memorial thread. The forum got taken down in January of this year and everything got deleted. I can't find his mods anymore.[/QUOTE] I use to be an active member of this forum. Had no idea it went down. I remember the cel shaded mod, it was great.
[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;21686979]Leave it in your will. username, password, instructions on how to post. Leave a text file on your desktop with a message to all of us[/QUOTE] Somewhere I read there's a service that you can sign up for, that when a family member provides them with a death certificate, it sends emails, tweets, you name it, out to everyone to tell it to with your last words. I'm staying away from this topic now.
I know someone who died very recently. It was strange, one night he was laughing and alive as you can be, and joking about this rash he had. Couple of days later we found out he was dead. Most people don't think about their mortallity as often as they should. Life could be shorter than you think, make the most of it..
Well.. I'll put out my story. Back in 06, I was primarily into that weird roleplaying forum Gaia Online. Now... This time was more of a promising time. Not as much cry babies,everyone was cool with each other,and roleplays somewhat made roleplay family. My first ,and long standing roleplay family is a forum called the "Demonic Mansion"... Kaiser... Sai ,Sariah,and Kayumi. All great people. Well.. One day I decided I would leave for a guild known as,"The United Gaian Military Force" or "UGMF". When I left the forum was bustling with probably about 20 active roleplayers. A pretty well knit family at that. After awhile I came back ,and it was incredibly inactive. I asked Kayumi what had happened too the forum. She told me,"A lot of shit went down.. Most of the group split up" I was devastated... I never thought about it up too that moment ,but they we're literally my second family. I eventually left Gaia Online for about... A year. (Joined a DoD 1.6 group known as Eagles At War) When I came back the Demonic Mansion became famous again. I smiled on it ,and decided to check on the "UGMF". Not much had changed in leadership/people ,but I noticed something... My friend Marshmallow was no where to be seen. I asked my friend Sean what happened to Marsh.. He replied,"Marsh went on his first tour after you left ,and was killed by a road side bomb... Sorry Joe..." At that moment... I couldn't tell what I felt. Sorrow? Despair? Angry at myself for not being able to say goodbye before he went on his tour? I don't know really... All I remember was hitting my head against the desk ,and crying. He was someone who helped me improve my roleplaying ,and then with a refresh of a page I found out I would never see him post anymore... He would never be the commander who would bite everyone's asses out anymore. That's one of a few stories regarding internet losses.
A great steam friend passed away recently, he was the kindest man i've ever met. Bye mike.
I nearly died once (from reason I have chosen not to post), and the members of a forum I post on regularly thought I actually had died. I felt really bad.
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